Peter Raymont: Between fact and fiction

Doors may open for a director who's won several film awards, but commissioners' chequebooks won't necessarily do the same. What's more likely to happen to a filmmaker who's received major industry accolades, says Peter Raymont, founder of Toronto's White Pine Pictures, is simply that their chances of getting a return call or email from a broadcaster improve. 'The stardust doesn't seem to linger that long,' says Raymont, whose feature doc Triage: Dr. James Orbinski's Humanitarian Dilemma will soon have its Canadian premiere at Hot Docs. 'People have very short memories in this business.'